Ar-Rahmaan (The Beneficent)

26. Whatsoever is on the earth is transient.

27. And only the Essence of your Lord full of Majesty and Honor shall remain forever.

28. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both [jinn and men] deny?

The preceding blessed Verses treated of Divine Blessings and the blessed Verse 26 is saying that the time of benefitting from these Blessings is brief. Seize the opportunity since you are all transient. The contextual meaning of the blessed Verse designates that all things are transient and trifling in their essence, but what remains is Divine Essence which is not subject to transience.

Now, a question arises here: how the question of transience may be regarded as a Divine Blessing? Such transience may not lead to absolute effacement and annihilation, but it is a window to the world of everlastingness, a tunnel or path leading to the abode of everlastingness. The world with all its bounties is a prison to believers and a way out of this world is a way out of the dark and small prison.

The blessed Verse 27 is saying that only the Honorable and Great Essence of you Lord shall remain. The Arabic word wajh literally denotes "face, countenance" perceived in the first encounter with someone, but employed regarding God Almighty, it connotes His Pure Essence.

The blessed Verse 28 addresses creatures once more asking:

"Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both [jinn and men] deny?"